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  • Title: Initial assessment of back pain: an overview.
    Author: McGregor AH, Hughes SP.
    Journal: Hosp Med; 1998 Jun; 59(6):492-5. PubMed ID: 9775279.
    Abstract:
    In any illness, the severity of symptoms and their effect on lifestyle are very important to the patient. Pain in the back may indicate simple backache which most people have at some time, a number of serious spinal diseases or low back disability. It is important to establish to which category a patient belongs, and this article will outline some of the methods by which this can be achieved.
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